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Fireworks

After several long hours, the head scientist of Cadmus pondered what to do with the intruding sidekicks and that strange boy with the even stranger device. Dr. Desmond, as he was known, had requested an audience with the Light to discuss the trespassers; he was currently waiting for his superiors to convene.

'The weapon told me that the boy used his watch to shape shift, how strange, I've never seen anything like this before. If I could control it than I could become the most powerful person in Cadmus! Even better I could combine the shape shifting with Project Blockbuster!'

Suddenly seven dark screens came down from the ceiling with blue circuitry flashing suddenly as the 'screen saver' with the word Cadmus displayed in yellow at the bottom of each screen. Once they were all down and surrounding Desmond, the screen saver changed to a silhouette on each display.

"Dr. Desmond, why do you require an audience with the Light?" One screen spoke with the voice of a man but, the voice was obviously filtered and disguised.

"Yes, I am terribly sorry to disturb you this late-"

"Just get to the point," The Light seemed irritated and unamused by Desmond's sudden call.

"Of course, we had a small fire here at Cadmus and the attention seems to have drawn intruders, three sidekicks and an unknown shape-shifter. Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad and the boy's ID read Ben Tennyson although, our database has never heard of such a person existing anywhere and neither does the town in which his ID originates. My question for you is… what should we do with them?"

There was silence as this was in fact a strange occurrence, however; the Light barely hesitated.

"You said there was a shape-shifter? Another Martian?"

"No, in fact, the peculiar thing is this boy uses some sort of watch-like device to change, the CCTV footage is very intriguing," Desmond stretched his collar to allow oxygen flow through his shirt and relieve stress.

"Clone them, all four, remove this watch by any means and make it serve the light."

"Understood, oh and the source material?"

"Leave no trace."

"Understood," Desmond flashed a sinister grin as the screens shut off and began to ascend back into the ceiling.

…

'Time runs short, you must awaken, and you must awaken now!'

All four heroes shot their eyes open with a gasp, the first thing they noticed was they were all bound by their arms and legs to an upwards table by metallic-straps in some sort of pod, different from the one that held Superboy though. Speaking of whom was standing right in front of them staring relentlessly.

"What? What do you want?!" Kid Flash spoke up first, "Quite staring, you're freaking me out!"

Superboy raised an eyebrow in response as Ben attempted to cool things down.

"Easy dude, we don't want to piss off the guy who can fry us with a look," He stated narrowing his eyes at Superboy and preparing to speak, however; he was interrupted before he could.

"Prepare the cloning procedure for the new Project: Sidekick," Dr. Desmond said as he entered them room followed by an assistant holding a clipboard. "This will work much better than the other weapon, we were only able to scrap up a small amount of blood from Superman's fight scenes but, from these individuals we can dissect and rip anything we may need strait from their bodies," he smiled gleefully at his captured prey, "Bone barrow, spinal fluid, brain tissue, these clones will be infallible!"

"Oh, so not going to happen," Ben chided coyly as he tried to move his wrist.

"It's pointless to struggle, you're trapped, and even if you could escape the weapon wouldn't mind giving you another beating, isn't that right?" He motioned behind himself to Superboy whom was still staring at the heroes unamused.

He didn't respond; he simply grunted and turned around.

"Well, if you're not going to help than you can get back in your pod," Desmond shouted looking over to Guardian who had just walked in, "Get it back in its pod, we'll wake it later if need be," He turned around assuming his orders wouldn't be questioned but, fortunately, he was wrong.

"I don't see the problem in letting the kid stretch his legs," Guardian patted Superboy's shoulder who didn't respond but smirked very slightly at the man in gold.

"He's not a real kid, he's a clone, an it, and he doesn't need to 'stretch his legs' because his legs are artificial, created here in Cadmus; that means he belongs to me… or Cadmus, same thing," Desmond walked forward and turned his shoulder so his G-gnome could hop onto Superboy's shoulder.

"Now get back in your pod like a good little weapon."

Superboy prepared himself to punch Desmond in the face hard enough to shake the entire facility, but just as he was about to, the G-gnome's horns began to glow once again causing him to lower his fist and turn around submissively.

Ben knew that this clone must have had super hearing as Kent had educated him on the basic abilities of most League members, so he knew he could speak in a whisper. "Is that what you want, to be controlled, manipulated? We can show you things that they refuse to. We can show you the sun; we can introduce you to Superman," Ben's mumbling was suddenly interrupted by large syringe-like machines propelled downwards, taking blood samples from each hero as painfully as possible.

Superboy stopped walking to listen.

They all screamed in agony but, Ben didn't cease his whisper as sweat began to form on his temple, "You could be a pet on a leash or you could be something greater..." Ben screamed again, forcefully halting his speech before struggling to continue, "We can make you part of something amazing, I don't care how much mind control they've used on you; you were born from Superman's DNA that means the need to do what's right is in your blood. Do what's right Superboy, be a hero!" Ben had to nearly shout the last three words as the machine began electrocuting the heroes as it sucked their blood from their bodies.

At those last words Superboy snapped his eyes wide-open and launched his G-gnome off of him and into the wall with a single toss. Guardian grabbed him by the shoulder but, Superboy turned and backhanded him into the computer console causing short-circuits. Superboy walked closer to the heroes in the room where Desmond tried to order Superboy out.

"What exactly do you think you're doing? I gave you an order! Now, get back in your-" Superboy effortlessly swatted Desmond into a computer knocking him out cold as he continued to walk past Desmond's assistant, whom comically put her hands up and backed away understanding she had no intention of stopping him; she backed away until she was safely out of the room.

The clone leaped into the air landing on Ben's pod, he shattered the glass with a fist and ripped off the shackles setting him free just as Robin managed to set himself free by picking the locks.

"Batman would have my head if he knew how long I took to get out of that," Robin said as he rubbed his irritated wrists and jumped down to the floor where Ben, Kid Flash, and Aqualad met him.

"Seriously? That's what you're worried about? The entire League is going to have our heads after tonight!" Kid Flash exclaimed as they began running towards the door.

Robin slung several explosive shuriken behind him, connecting with the glass container that held their blood; the fiery explosion wiped out the samples and the cloning machine as Desmond took cover. He stood to his feet and saw that the cloning process had been destroyed completely, he grunted with rage adjusting his spectacles motioning to Guardian, "Activate every single Genomorph in Cadmus," he said through his teeth, practically seething with anger.

The teens ran through the halls lined with giant organic egg-like orbs; each one began glowing a sickening red as they sprinted past them.

"That doesn't look good!" Ben yelled as they continued down the hall towards the elevators.

"We are still forty-two levels below ground, if we can make it to the elevator-" Aqualad was cut off by the sight of two giant G-Trolls blocking their path, the same giant beasts from earlier that nearly turned Kid Flash into a pancake.

"Oh boy," Robin commented as Kid Flash looked over to Ben who was busy examining the hall and its approximate size.

"Ben, I don't wanna rush but, we could really use Rath or XLR8 right now," Kid Flash asked in desperation.

"This hallway is still too small for my stronger aliens, I guess I'll go with," He projected the hologram on his Ultimatrix before slapping the dial initiating an intense glow. What came from the light was a green humanoid with a red and yellow flower-like skull and a stench that could kill an elephant."Swampfire!" the alien announced with a voice sounding as though he had no nose to speak of; He formed two spheres of fire in his hands and tossed them at the beasts in front of them, scaring them considerably.

"Uh, Swampfire!" Robin yelled trying not to use Ben's real name out of habit, he quickly pointed behind them; every pod in the entire hall had begun glowing and releasing a Genomorph of a different size/type.

"On it," the alien declared as he created a wall of flame between the army of creatures and themselves leaving the G-Troll blocked elevator as their only means of escape.

Swampfire ran towards the G-Trolls alongside Superboy as they both jumped and slammed their fists on either of the G-Trolls' horns, knocking them over. Swampfire landed on the ground below it and placed his palm on the ground for no more than a second as giant green vines sprouted from the floor. The thick green vines wrapped themselves around the beasts forcing them down and keeping them pinned.

"That's what I'm talking about!" Kid yelled as he high fived both Superboy and Swampfire, the former of which was staring at his open palm confused; Kid slipped his goggles over his eyes and sped over to Ben and Aqualad.

"We need to get outta here, pronto!" Swampfire asked before slapping the dial on his chest and transforming into XLR8 again, his visor slid down quickly nodding to Kid.

"On it," Kid grabbed Robin and sped away while XLR8 grabbed Aqualad and followed. Superboy kept up with his own speed super-speed but, he didn't seem nearly as fast as though, as they dodged around Genomorph's at every turn, Superboy simply backhanded and straight-armed any that got in his way.

They stopped at the elevator where Kid placed Robin on his feet allowing him to hack through the door's security system and gained full access in mere moments, "Got it!"

As they entered the elevator, Ben transformed back to normal attempting to save battery and waited for the doors to close. They just barely saw Desmond and Guardian turning the corner towards them so, Robin elected to wave playfully as the door shut in their face.

Desmond slammed his fist into the elevator doors, "Take the stairs, cut them off on the ground floor, don't let them leave!" Dr. Desmond shouted as walked towards the stairwell entrance.

"What about you?"

"I'm heading to Sub Level 51 to use the elevator, then I'm headed to Sub Level Two to pick up a special gift from Project: Blockbuster," Desmond's eyes screamed 'evil plot' but, the manipulated hero Guardian couldn't make heads or tails of it and instead decided to follow his orders.

…

After some silence Kid Flash began to whistle as there was no elevator music playing, this prompted Ben to start whistling the same tune in unison. Comically, Robin joined in as well as they watched the numbers decrease slowly, passing Sub Level 20. Superboy grunted in frustration and everyone ceased whistling immediately, Kid coughed instead as to pretend he wasn't whistling.

The elevator finally stopped at Sub Level 8, just two stories away from their goal of leaving the facility alive, Superboy kicked the elevator doors down and sent them flying across the grey hallway, Ben chuckled, "Looks like they got a better interior decorator for this one."

"Stairs," Superboy stated bluntly pointing towards the door to their right as they all filed through the and Kid Flash immediately grinned speeding up the stairs and towards ground level.

"Kid, wait!" Ben called out but, to no avail.

Superboy jumped up the middle of the stairs without a second thought, grappling from rail to rail with his super strength and agility.

Ben popped up the dial and slid through dozens of aliens before finding the form he was looking for, he slapped the dial and allowed the trademark glow to take effect. Robin and Aqualad looked up at the tall skinny green alien made completely of vines and only sporting one single eye, "I'm gonna head up there and see what's up, you guys catch up when you can," the alien allowed one of his vine-arms to extend outwards and wrap itself around a higher railing, pulling him up towards where Kid had disappeared.

Wildvine used his super-strong vines to rip the door to Sub Level 1 off its hinges, entering the room where Kid Flash was face to face with Dr. Desmond, the insane man who had been chasing them this entire time; he slapped the Ultimatrix dial and appeared as Ben once again. He analyzed his surroundings quickly, he noticed the large room with a high ceiling and dozens of pillars supporting the building above ground, this could work for him.

"Remarkable! Such a power shouldn't be toyed with! It should be studied, weaponized; it should serve the light like everything in existence soon will!" Dr. Desmond spoke with utter insanity as he held a vile with blue liquid swishing around in it and a cork keeping it sealed.

"If a device like this were weaponized you could wipe out the universe, maybe more, and trust me when I say, I will not let that happen!" Unlike Desmond, Ben spoke with pure determination and justice in his tone of voice.

Desmond was the only thing standing between the teens and freedom and Ben didn't seem too worried considering the scientists appearance but, that blue liquid was a wild card. Just as Ben thought this, the others arrived shifting the odds in favor of justice. With their arrival, they brought a sudden nervousness to Desmond who gulped loudly but smiled with a sinister grin, "You think you have power? I'll show you power!" Desmond popped the cork on the vile with his thumb and downed it with one shot.

Seconds later, Desmond began holding his stomach in pain as he fell to his knees and his glasses flew to the ground; His body twisted and deformed, growing massively to nearly twelve feet tall. His skin turned a sickening grey color while splitting open in some spots revealing the fleshy muscle underneath. His eyes turned crimson red and his lab coat tore off of him, the others backed away as the beast roared sending saliva across the room.

"You guys go, Superboy and I can handle him," Ben said with a serious tone allowing his palm to hover over the Ultimatrix.

"I don't think Fourarm-guy can handle this, dude," Kid Flash said with a sheepish voice staring up at the massive beast as it stared them down.

"Nah, there's plenty of room here, why go small? When I can go hero!" Ben slammed the dial and felt the familiar energy overtake him as his DNA was rewritten and his body, size, and appearance changed dramatically. In Ben's place was a massive brown humanoid dinosaur with bright green eyes and the Ultimatrix symbol displayed on its chest.

"Meet, Humungousaur!" the alien roared sounding exactly like a prehistoric creature as he looked Blockbuster in the eye and preparing for a fight.

The others blinked in both fear and confusion, "Well, we'll leave you to it," Robin said as he headed for the exit, Aqualad, and Kid following behind him with a similar expression.

Blockbuster noticed this and turned towards them but, didn't get to finish whatever he had planned due to him being right hooked in the face by Superboy, "Your fights over here, ugly!" the boy of steel screamed as he jumped and threw a left hook that slammed into Blockbusters jaw sending him off his feet and into a pillar.

"Wanna get in on this?" Superboy yelled at Humungousaur who cracked his knuckles in response.

"My pleasure," Blockbuster threw a fist that connected with Humungousaur's chin knocking him backward momentarily. The dyno-alien grunted in response, throwing a punch that knocked the behemoth into the wall; Blockbuster stood only to be knocked back down by Superboy, whom barraged him with blow after blow until the creature backhanded him through two pillars severing them from the ceiling. Humungousaur's fist came from nowhere crushing Blockbusters face into the concrete wall, shaking the very foundation of the facility. Several devastating punches later, Blockbuster caught Humungousaur's fist surprisingly and threw a punch of his own sending him through a line of pillars that supported the building.

Superboy jumped at Blockbuster who caught the half Kryptonian by the arm and whirled him around and tossed him into a recovering Humungousaur knocking them both over. Blockbuster was about to throw another punch but was stopped by a grappling line wrapping around his arm suddenly.

"Not so fast, gruesome," spoke Robin as he, Aqualad, and Kid held his arm back with all of their strength giving Humungousaur the opportunity to get to his feet.

Blockbuster didn't seem impressed though as he yanked them all over to him effortlessly and sent a bone crushing jab into Aqualad's face knocking him through several pillars and into the ground whilst Robin and Kid landed in a heap, Robin barely managing to land on one knee.

Robin rushed after catching his breath, ducking under Blockbuster and placing several exploding Birdarangs at his feet before back flipping through his legs and of the way, letting the explosion cover the beasts face before sending more into his back.

The explosions barely fazed him as he grabbed the boy wonder and tossed him aside, hitting a pillar and landing on his stomach. Just as Blockbuster was about to turn his attention back to the strongest two he was met by two fists slamming his face. One Kryptonian and one Vaxasaurian sending him through several more pillars and nearly knocking him unconscious on the concrete wall, but no such luck as the creature stood once more releasing a mighty roar of rage and incoherent growling.

Superboy charged the beast but this time he caught Superboy mid-swing and sent an uppercut into his chin, the boy of steel flew through the ceiling and onto the ground of the Cadmus lobby. He looked up and roared once more giving chase to the half-Kryptonian by leaping through the hole and after his prey. Humungousaur sighed and slapped the Ultimatrix symbol changing back to normal with a single green-flash.

"Kaldur?" Ben asked as a limping Robin approached him with Kid Flash as his crutch.

"Out cold, why did you transform back?" Kid asked as he saw that Ben was slightly injured, "And let me guess you, keep the damage that your transformations receive?"

"It wasn't always like that but, yea, and it's a device," Ben raised his arm revealing the Ultimatrix, "It runs on a self-sustaining battery, eventually though, it will run out on me and it'll need some time to recharge."

Loud screams and crashes of fighting could be heard from the floor above; several craters formed in the ceiling as they fought with no mercy.

"We have to go help," Ben said pulling up the holograms of his aliens and looking for one that could possible injure this monster.

"Take a look at this," Robin said as he opened up his scan of Blockbuster, "That serum put him through a metamorphosis which is… whatever but, look at his adrenalin levels."

They all looked at the levels and were surprised to see the numbers, "Whoa, that's over ten times as much as a heavy weight boxing champion!"

"I know I'm surprised his heart hasn't ceased from all the pressure, it has to be the transformation that changed his body to suit the massive adrenalin levels, and when you and Superboy punched him over? His adrenalin doubled, hence why he was able to suddenly take Superboy on like it was nothing."

Speaking of which more loud thuds and screaming could be heard from both parties fighting above them; dry wall and concrete rained down like snow around them as the brawl quickly careened out of control.

"I have to get up there," Ben noted still looking through his aliens.

"Raise his adrenalin enough and eventually he'll start seizing," Robin stated as Ben turned his back to the boy wonder.

"That could kill him; I think I'll settle for knocking him out cold."

Ben slapped the Ultimatrix and in his place, was a giant yellow armadillo with massive arms and rather small legs, "ARMADRILLO!"

"Go, I'll take him down," Armadrillo looked upwards and slammed his arms on the ground propelling himself upwards through the hole that Blockbuster had previously created with Superboy's face.

When he arrived, Superboy was barely holding his own and Blockbuster had the upper-hand; the beast intertwined hands with Superboy and pushed him back as the Kryptonian's heels carved through the concrete.

Armadrillo placed his fist on Blockbusters back and allowed his jackhammer elbows to propel his fist suddenly with much more power than an average punch. This punch sent Blockbuster forwards and over Superboy's head landing near the glass exit but, digging his fingers into the ground to stop his momentum.

Armadrillo slapped the Ultimatrix dial and emerged as a giant humanoid heap of burning rock with a flaming skull to boot, "HEATBLAST!" The alien shouted as he allowed his burning fists to engulf the beast in fire, keeping him back momentarily.

"Took you long enough, what? Did you stop for a coffee break?" Superboy shouted as he caught his breath, placing his hands on his knees briefly.

"Robin wants me to make his adrenalin go up, till he has a stroke," Heatblast upped the flames keeping Blockbuster temporarily at bay.

"Do it!" Superboy yelled perking up quickly, "If we can't take him down than what choice do we have!"

"We do not kill!" Heatblast shouted in anger as the flames suddenly tripled in temperature and range nearly melting the concrete ground, "We're better than them! We don't need to kill to take our enemies down!"

Heatblast slapped the symbol on his chest changing his form once again into a three-foot tall midget made completely from white-silicon with a rather large mouth and glowing green eyes, "ECHOECHO! Alright, cover your ears," the tiny alien spoke in an auto-tuned voice as he approached the now smoking Blockbuster. Superboy complied in a confused manner but, covered his ears regardless.

The tiny alien cloned itself multiple times, splitting into seven different versions of himself and making a circle around the massive creature who seemed confused to say the least.

"Wall of Sound!" each tiny alien released a massive burst of sonic energy shattering the glass to the main entrance and causing Superboy to drop to one knee; the blast caused Blockbuster to fall to his knees as well clutching his head, screaming in agony as the sound bombarded his eardrums.

EchoEcho tightened his fists and upped the decibels getting even louder and causing Blockbuster to black out from the pain, toppling over like a statue. After several seconds of watching Blockbuster the tiny aliens ceased their assault on his ears, morphing back into the origin alien one by one until there was only one left. The last one slapped the symbol on his chest and reverted back into Ben with a low green flash. He did this just in time to see Robin and Kid Flash walking towards him and Aqualad helping Superboy to his feet, "Sorry about that I didn't mean to-" Ben was cut off by Superboy grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and getting really close to his face.

"Don't. Do. That. Again." After his warning was finished he dropped Ben who had a nervous drop of sweat beading down his temple.

"Hehe, got it," He gave a casual thumbs up.

They slowly walked out of the building and collapsed on the ground outside, the sidewalk had never been so comfortable but, this didn't stop Superboy from staring up at the moon, it was full and more beautiful than any psychic image Cadmus could have provided. It's light shun down on him as the navy blue night sky twinkled with distant star-light, "Bet, Cadmus didn't show you this," Ben stated staring up at Superboy from the ground but, just as he said this the entire building of Cadmus begun to shake vigorously, suddenly collapsing in on itself causing everyone to shield their eyes from the dust and rubble.

"Guess those pillars were important, huh?" Robin asked Ben who chuckled and got to his feet.

As they settled onto the concrete for some well-deserved rest, Superboy noticed something coming from the sky, "Guys," Superboy stated slowly pointing up to the now visible persons floating towards them. The entire Justice League arrived one by one including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, two flavors of Green Lantern, Captain Marvel, Martian Manhunter, Zatara, Black Canary, Flash, Aquaman, Red Tornado, Hawkman and women, Captain Atom, and Green Arrow all arrived either by flying themselves or a Green Lantern using a construct to carry them.

After arriving, silence befell the heroes, but none were more surprised than Superman when Superboy stepped forwards and pulled his ripped 'S' shield up and revealed it to everyone.

Batman spoke first, "Is that what I think it is?"

Ben stepped forwards, "He doesn't like being called an It," ben whispered as the Bat growled in response.

"I am the clone of Superman… I am Superboy," he repeated the mantra Cadmus had programmed into his mind, not knowing how else to introduce himself.

Superman took a step back with eyes widened but collected his composure soon enough as Batman placed a hand on his shoulder and faced the teens, narrowing his eyes at them intensely.

"Start talking."

…

After explaining everything that happened Superman, Batman, Flash, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman gathered into a group and began discussing the events, Ben's abilities, and what to do with Superboy. That was until Manhunter caught Superboy staring at Superman causing him to place a hand on the man of steels shoulder, glancing over at the clone. Superman sighed and walked over to Superboy, with a distaste in his stagger.

"I'll… We'll figure something out for you, the League will… I mean. I better make sure they get that Blockbuster creature squared away though," with that Superman took flight and once he had reached a high enough altitude, he reached super sonic speeds in seconds to catch up with the group who was handling Blockbuster.

"As for you," Batman spoke referring to Ben, "I want a detailed list of your transformations and their abilities," he looked down at the boy's wrist, "And everything you know about that."

"Kent's my mentor, not you," Ben replied crossing his arms across his chest.

"End result aside, we are not happy," Batman growled before attempting to continue before being interrupted by a speedster.

"You should've called!" Flash chimed in.

"You hacked League systems, disobeyed direct orders, and endangered innocent lives as well as your own. You will not be doing this again," Batman stated firmly giving no room for arguing.

"I am sorry, but we will," Aqualad said as the five heroes stood together crossing their arms and nodding toward one another.

"Aqualad, stand down," Aquaman ordered.

"Apologies, my king but, No."

This caused Aquaman to raise an eyebrow and step forwards, "Excuse-"

Ben stepped up, "We did good work here today, the work you trained them to do, the work Kent trained me to do, the kind of work that I've been doing since I was ten years old and yea, it got messy, but no mission goes exactly as planned."

Kid Flash leaned over to Robin and whispered, "We didn't have a plan, right?"

Robin responded by elbowing him in the abdomen without a word.

"Today we formed something powerful, a team," Ben announce looking between himself and his new teammates.

"If this is about your treatment at the Hall, the three of you-" Flash started.

"The five of us," Kid Flash corrected "And it's not!"

Robin stepped forward, "Batman, we're ready to use what you taught us," Robin let his arms fall to the side, "Otherwise, why teach us at all?"

"Why let them tell us what to do?" Superboy announced from behind everyone, stepping forwards in front of Robin and crossing his arms once again, "It's simple, get on board or get out of the way."

"What he said, only nicer," Ben commented as they stood in a horizontal line each of them standing exactly where the League once stood with authorities and police, showcasing their amazing teamwork and ability to stand their ground against even their superiors. In a way, Batman was almost proud.

…

Mount Justice; Happy Harbor.

3 days later

"This cave was the original Secret Sanctuary of the Justice League," Batman stated as all five heroes were joined in the center of the hall in their civilian clothes all except for Superboy who had a black T-shirt with the red 'S' symbol on it and Ben who had his trademark green jacket on, "We're calling it into service again, since you five are determined to stay together and fight the good fight… You'll do it on League terms."

The other heroes in the room included Red Tornado, Black Canary, and Aquaman staring down the young heroes with pride

"Red Tornado has volunteered to live here and be your supervisor while Black Canary is in charge of training. I will deploy you on missions," Batman continued.

"Real missions?" Robin asked.

"Yes but, covert," Batman narrowed his eyes stressing the 'covert'.

Flash commented, "The League will still handle the obvious stuff, there's a reason we have these giant targets on our chest."

"But, Cadmus proves that the bad guys are getting smarter, Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly," Aquaman said turning to Batman who had more to say.

"The six of you will be that team."

"Cool! Wait six?" Kid questioned curiously.

Batman looked back towards the teleporters which had just died down as two figures walked towards them. One being Martian Manhunter and another being a shorter girl with long red hair and green skin, she had just a splash of freckles on the bridge of her nose and cute brown eyes.

"This is the Martian Manhunter's niece; she has elected to call herself Miss Martian, she will join you on this team," Batman placed a hand on her back as she approached the team slowly with her hands behind her back.

"Hi," she waved casually to the others.

"I like this gig more every minute," Kid Flash stated as he zoomed next to her, "I'm Kid Flash, that's Robin, Ben, Aqualad. It's cool if you forget their names," Kid smiled coyly.

"I'm honored to be included," the girl stated as she walked towards the silent Kryptonian.

Superboy walked in front of her, "You can call me, uh, Superboy," he reached his arm out but she didn't shake it, instead her outfit changed from a white and red female variation of her Uncles uniform to a black shirt with a crimson 'X' across it with the number.

"I like your shirt," she said blushing causing the Kryptonian to smile casually.

"Today is the day," Ben announced one last time.

…

Underneath the destruction of the Cadmus building the real Cadmus headquarters was mostly intact, the 52 sub levels were untouched but, the large construction crew loudly put together the 'front' building to keep outsiders entertained, however; it was still obvious that Cadmus was forced into the shadows, the League would surely investigate.

Inside Sub Level 2 was nothing but a desk and a small construction crew rebuilding what had been destroyed. Guardian sat behind the desk with the skinny Genomorph from Sub Level 52 and Dr. Desmond's assistant on the other end of the desk, "Cadmus changes today. With Desmond out of the picture the board has placed me in charge. No more Genomorphs suppressing our will, Dr. Spence you are acting chief scientist. This is a kinder and gentler, Cadmus."

…

In a room filled with the same screens Dr. Desmond used to communicate with the Light, the Light themselves began conversing about what had transpired as of late.

"I'm not sure if we can leave Guardian in charge of Cadmus, are you positive that's the best plan?" One female voice asked.

A male voice responded, "That is of no real concern to us at this point, Cadmus was obviously a failure, and I'll send someone to collect anything useful from their laboratories later. In the mean-time we should focus on these teens."

Another male spoke, "In all my years of life never have I seen someone with such power," the man spoke with admiration at a security camera image of Humungousaur, "If we gain access to that device, the Earth would be ours. And if we could reverse engineer it? The entire Universe would be ripe pickings."

"I assure you, Project: Ten is already under production as we speak but, without all of Cadmus working on the project, it will take some time," the voice sounded slightly nervous at the last words.

"How long?" the voice growled.

"Five years… estimated of course but, my calculations are never wrong. I'm more concerned with Project: Match," he paused for a moment, "Last I checked it was unstable."

A female voice sounding more dominate than anything spoke up "Project: Match is a failure, it should be iced immediately."

"And as for the group of children?"

"It is now evident that the league is willing to employ children to do their dirty work," the man scoffed at the idea, "That's a dark twist."

"Never the less, it's one that can be played to our advantage, even the temporary loss of the weapon may prove useful. Eventually, everyone sees the light…"

…

Chapter 2 Remastered!

I'm changing a lot bit by bit, unfortunately, this will cause some odd scenes if you read this story linearly. Eventually all 20 chapters will be remastered and the 21st will be posted.

I did allow Majestic Night Fury to adopt this story, however; after seeing how he took 6 months to produce even a single chapter, I have decided to move on with the project in my own direction, remastering the story chapter by chapter.

Hope you all enjoy!